Hello, web-devel :)
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 19:50 +0300, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Let me clarify three things:
>> 1) I started on a MySQL backend a while ago, and didn't do much work on it.
> 2) Someone else (I won't point fingers, he can stand up himself if he
> chooses) is working on a MySQL backend.
Standing up :P
I'm going to get on with it this week; hopefully I'll have something to
show for it in a few days.
> 3) Adding arbitrary backends is very easy, *except* for migration
> support. So it's within the realm of reason to create a HDBC-generic
> backend, sans migration support.
Indeed, migration is the tedious bit. Migration in Postgre is easier
than MySQL.
>> In fact, the PostgreSQL backend is basically an HDBC backend already;
> if this is a feature people will actually use, let's do it.
Are you still preferring the native binding route (ala
persistent-sqlite)? This is the route I have gone for the MySQL binding.
>> Michael
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Nikitiskiy Dmitriy <nick at bel.ru> wrote:
> > I vote for ODBC support with GenericSql.
> > ODBC will allow many other databases support.
> >
> > 26.04.2011 19:02, Greg Weber wrote:
> >>
> >> it doesn't compile. Perhaps a day's work to get it going. Postgresql and
> >> sqlite both use a GenericSql module that MySQL can also use. Either way,
> >> there are already example SQL backends. You are the first haskeller I have
> >> seen show interest in MySQL for a new project, which is the main reasons why
> >> that backend is bit-rotting.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Max Cantor <mxcantor at gmail.com> >> <mailto:mxcantor at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've heard that there is a mysql backend in development for persistent.
> >> what is its current status? before you start telling me how postgres is
> >> better, let me say that I know it is. but, the AWS RDS implementation of
> >> MySQL is very compelling and kind of makes up for the differences..
> >>
> >
> >
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